Andrea Beck

Melissa and I have been friends and kibbitzing for a long time. And much of that friendship has taken place while we were supposed to be writing. Both of us had published pieces on Jewish websites, but we noticed something missing: none of them seemed to speak to the real-life experiences of our demographic.

On Thursday afternoon, the URJ (Union of Reform Judaism) summer camps announced that they will not be having onsite camps this summer.

The country is at war, and I don’t want to send my kid to a war zone.